Once upon a time there were three bears, who lived together in a house of their own in a wood. One of them was a little, small wee bear; one was a middle-sized bear, and the other was a great, huge bear.
One day, after they had made porridge for their breakfast, they walked out into the wood while the porridge was cooling. And while they were walking, a little girl came into the house. This little girl had golden curls that tumbled down her back to her waist, and everyone called her by Goldilocks.

In olden times, when if you made a wish, it would always come true, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face. Close by the king’s castle lay a great dark forest, and under an old lime tree in the forest was a well. When the day was very warm, the king’s child went out into the forest and sat down by the side of the cool fountain, and when she was dull she took a golden ball, and threw it up on high and caught it, and this ball was her favourite plaything.

It happened in ancient times that a slave named Androcles escaped from his master and fled into the forest, and he wandered there for a long time until he was weary.
Just then he heard a lion near him moaning and groaning and at times roaring terribly. And when he tried to get up, there he saw the lion coming towards him.
Instead of attacking him it kept on moaning and groaning and looking at Androcles, who saw that the lion was holding out his right paw, which was covered with blood and very much swollen. Looking more closely at it, Androcles saw a great big thorn pressed into the paw, which was the cause of all the lion’s trouble.
Plucking up courage, he seized hold of the thorn and drew it out of the lion's paw, who roared with pain when the thorn came out, but soon after found such relief from it that he rubbed up against Androcles, and showed that he knew, that he was truly thankful for being relieved from such pain.

I'm an artist, and as everyone knows, artists are usually rather poor. Normally, I don't mind about that. When the sun is shining, I sit on my favourite blade of grass and play music for everyone to listen to. I have lots of friends, and together we’ve formed an orchestra.
Everyone loves our music and says how cheerful it makes them feel – well almost everyone. There’s a family of ants who never stop to listen. They take themselves far too seriously for music or enjoyment. All they do is work, work, work – even when the sun is shining.
“Hey You Ants,” I said to them. “It’s a lovely summer’s day. Why don’t you rest your feet for a while, and listen to my sweet music?”
“No time to stop,” one of them said, panting away. “We’re far too busy stocking up food for winter.”
The months went by, and the days got shorter and colder. I was shivering so much that I couldn’t even sing. A hard frost was on the ground, and there wasn’t a crumb to eat. I was so hungry! So I went to see that busy family of ants and said: “Please Sirs, I’m a poor starving musician. Spare me a few crumbs from your store of food.”
Do you know what? Those ants just turned their noses up at me. They were so stingy that they wouldn’t share any of their food. Oh Well, I’ll just have to go hungry this winter. In the New Year, I’ll make a resolution. When the times are good, I’ll remember to save some food for a rainy day.

Once upon a time there was an old man, an old woman, and a little boy. One morning the old woman made some gingerbread in the shape of a man. She added icing for his hair and clothes, and little blobs of dough for his nose and eyes. When she put him in the oven to bake, she said to the little boy, "You watch the gingerbread man while your grandfather and I go out to work in the garden."
So the old man and the old woman went out and began to dig potatoes, and left the little boy to tend the oven. But he started to day dream, and didn't watch it all of the time. All of a sudden he heard a noise, and he looked up and the oven door popped open, and out of the oven jumped a gingerbread man, and went rolling along end over end towards the open door of the house. The little boy ran to shut the door, but the gingerbread man was too quick for him and rolled through the door, down the steps, and out into the road long before the little boy could catch him.
The little boy ran after him as fast as he could manage, crying out to his grandfather and grandmother, who heard the noise...

My 6 years old brother drew a funny 3-head creature last week and I decided to transform it to digital illustration. What do you think?

How to draw a Child easy and step by step. Draw this Boy Child by following this drawing lesson.
My next video post will be in a week. Don't miss it ;-)

I imagine Bobby goes there in the next book and all the habitants of this place can control the colors. Magic is all around us!

Again it's time for inspiration. This week I share with you an interview with the paper engineer Matthew Reinhart, direct from his studio. He is an award-winning designer of pop-up books including most recently Star Wars: The Ultimate Pop-Up Galaxy. Matthew shows us his handmade pop-up prototypes and his process for designing the interactive pages of this new book.

Follow along as we create pop up animals in this basic tutorial.
This activity is appropriate for all ages (although some younger kids might need a little help).

In this video I'll show you how to assemble figure #47 from the Complexities of Pop-Up.
You can download for free the template: here

In this video, I will show you the most beautiful, stunning and amazing pop-up books from my pop-up book collection.

This tutorial explains an easy way to make the range of pop-up shapes that are based on Parallel-folds. Although simple in themselves they are an important feature of pop-up design as they often form the foundation of highly complex mechanisms.

I would like to present you a Bulgarian translation of the fairy tale published a month ago.
Enjoy!

Имало едно време три мечки, които живеели заедно в собствена къща в една гора. Едното било малко, малко мече, другото било средно голямо, а третото - голямо, огромно.
Един ден, след като приготвили каша за закуска, те излезли в гората, докато кашата се охлаждала. И докато се разхождали, в къщата влязло едно малко момиченце. Това момиченце имало златни къдрици, които се спускали по гърба му до кръста, и всички го наричали по име Златка.

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Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό ήταν ένας γέρος, μια γριά και ένα μικρό αγόρι. Ένα πρωί η γριά γυναίκα έφτιαξε μελομακάρονα σε σχήμα ανθρώπου. Πρόσθεσε γλάσο για τα μαλλιά και τα ρούχα του και μικρές σταγόνες ζύμης για τη μύτη και τα μάτια του. Όταν τον έβαλε στο φούρνο για να ψηθεί, είπε στο μικρό αγόρι: "Εσύ θα προσέχεις τον μελομακάρονο όσο εγώ και ο παππούς σου θα πηγαίνουμε έξω να δουλέψουμε στον κήπο". Έτσι, ο γέρος και η γριά βγήκαν έξω και άρχισαν να σκάβουν πατάτες και άφησαν το μικρό αγόρι να προσέχει το φούρνο. Εκείνο όμως άρχισε να ονειρεύεται και δεν το πρόσεχε συνέχεια. Ξαφνικά άκουσε έναν θόρυβο, και κοίταξε ψηλά και η πόρτα του φούρνου άνοιξε και από τον φούρνο πετάχτηκε ένας μελομακάρονος και κυλούσε με την άκρη προς την ανοιχτή πόρτα του σπιτιού. Το μικρό αγόρι έτρεξε να κλείσει την πόρτα, αλλά ο μελομακάρονος ήταν πολύ γρήγορος γι' αυτόν και κύλησε μέσα από την πόρτα, κατέβηκε τα σκαλιά και βγήκε στο δρόμο πολύ πριν το μικρό αγόρι προλάβει να τον πιάσει. Το μικρό αγόρι έτρεξε πίσω του όσο πιο γρήγορα μπορούσε, φωνάζοντας στον παππού και τη γιαγιά του, που άκουσαν το θόρυβο...